Thursday, October 8, 2020

the brainwashed multitudes

my friend of thirty five years
goes off the deep end.

i hope he dies, he says vehemently.
i've never hated
anyone as much as i hate him.

i can feel the anger coming through
the wires, thorough
the tapping
of his keyboard on his phone.

smoke is coming out of the sides
of mine
as i read what he writes.

i tell him to take a walk,
to get outside, to stop sitting in front
of the tv
all day long and watching the toxic
news.

get a job, a hobby. something.
do something with your life rather
than

be a pawn in the game. this only
makes him madder
and write more vile things
about
me about them,
about him.

i fall in the middle which
kills him, any opinion not his,
is wrong and evil.

i remember when he was carefree
and fun, full of joy
and jokes.
easy going.

young and happy, full of optimism.

but it seems those days are done.

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